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12/2/2007

Guns in America: One Woman’s Story

Filed under: Crime — DRJ @ 12:43 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

This line from Vic DeSantis with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Department says it all:

“You know, you just can’t gauge people’s reactions when they’re in that type of situation.”

Now for the rest of the story:

“A local woman wasn’t going to let a band of robbers tie her up and take her jewelry Friday. Police said a Merritt Island [Florida] woman fought back against her intruders, scaring them away with her handgun, WESH 2 News reported.

According to police, the men had a plan and a convincing costume — reflective vests and hardhats. Neighbors said they looked like power company workers and police said the men knew who they were attacking. “They had the jacket on, the vest and the hardhat and everything,” neighbor Amanda Wiedmann said. She said she will never forget seeing the robbers who targeted her neighbor.

The woman told police her story about being duct-taped, shocked with a Taser, robbed and then getting away and chasing the men down her driveway while shooting at them. “She took a couple shots, and they took a couple shots because she said they had some guns with them,” witness Heather Roberson said. All along the driveway was a trail of jewelry and money. The fleeing attackers dropped the stuff in a panic as bullets whizzed past them.

The victim had freed herself from the tape and come out shooting.”

Authorities believe the men “followed the woman home from a gambling ship cruise at Port Canaveral, apparently noticing that she had money.” No blood trail was found so they aren’t sure if anyone was shot.

Video interview here.

— DRJ

8 Responses to “Guns in America: One Woman’s Story”

  1. Too bad. Maybe it would have worked out better if she had stopped running, taken a deep breath, and aimed carefully. In every other respect, her heart was in the right place. And I can see how she might have wanted to get up “close and personal” to them.

    nk (2e8319)

  2. And this is FLORIDA the state that has been labled the GUNSHINE STATE by the blabbering iidots at the BRADY CENTER all over their CASTLE DOCTRINE which states a person can stand their grounds and use deadly force and here all the time the liberal wussietards tell us to DONT RESIST A CRINIMAL GIVE WHAT THEY WANT which proves these liberals are a bunch of nambdy pambdy group of patheic jerks

    krazy kagu (b3aac5)

  3. Maybe the story will have a happy ending and the authorities will catch these guys anyway. Too bad there wasn’t a blood trail to follow. At least from a flesh wound….

    EdWood (8f0ae7)

  4. Maybe the story will have a happy ending and the authorities will catch these guys anyway. Too bad there wasn’t a blood trail to follow. At least from a flesh fatal wound….

    hazy (c36902)

  5. Gee, where are the resident liberal pansies to complain about “taking the law into her own hands?”

    Smarty (3982db)

  6. Good for her. Though it would have been nice if she had hit at least one.

    Joe M. (b36306)

  7. As a former resident of the State I find these types of reports to be a major embarassment.

    I mean, who misses at standing-in-the-driveway range? Someone needs to spend more time at the range and less time in the casino.

    ThomasD (9e8a29)

  8. re #4 uhhhh whoops, I meant NON- fatal flesh wound…

    EdWood (c2268a)


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